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Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: The figure of €706 million includes the €12 million that Mr. Kennedy has referred to in the payment costs so far. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: Mr. McCarthy referred to how the guarantee payments for the M3 are projected to end in 2019 under a medium traffic growth scenario. The Comptroller and Auditor General has obviously garnered that information from TII. Is that so?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General believe that next year will be the last year in which payments are going to be made?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: This is what I am trying to probe. Clearly the M3 is critical and welcome infrastructure but it has a major flaw in that when it gets to Blanchardstown it becomes effectively a car park. There is no infrastructure to feed in to in terms of the access. Let us consider the growth figures. Let us suppose the figures were to grow at the levels that Mr. Kennedy is suggesting. Will the...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: Maybe I was not clear, I am sorry, Chairman. I agree absolutely. I use it every day. There is no problem with the capacity of the motorway. The problem is when the motorway ends at Blanchardstown Shopping Centre. We do not have "Back to the Future" cars. No one here is Michael J. Fox - we cannot fly across Blanchardstown. When we hit it, bar finding Dr. Scott, we are getting nowhere...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: I am glad Mr. Nolan said that because I want to touch on that as well. I know rail is not it, but I will touch on that. In 2013 the then Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport and now Taoiseach, Deputy Leo Varadkar, said that the money spend on the traffic guarantee payments would go a long way in terms of road maintenance and upkeep. How right he was. Let us continue in that vein. Can...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: Does the Slane bypass come under TII's auspices in respect of work on the N2 project?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: On land use planning, on which I touched earlier, it is stated in TII's report that it has significant responsibilities in terms of its input into development plans and strategic development zone, SDZ, local area plans. In that respect - things are picking up again - projects involving a lot of land in different parts of the country cannot be progressed through planning stage because the...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: Where is the forward-planning section of TII in liaising with the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government in fast-tracking what is submitted by county councils across the country in the context of strategic infrastructure requests?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: That forward-planning is key for us. Mr. Nolan answered me earlier when I talked about congestion. We have growth figures for the M3 which could relieve pressure on the Exchequer. TII is obviously hoping traffic volumes will continue to grow as it will relieve the pressure on the public purse. Equally, does TII have a vested interest in making sure rail projects in the area will not...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: In what manner? The Chairman is 100% correct.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: Mr. Kenny was very frank and honest, but when he responded to Deputy Aylward he remarked that toll schemes had not performed as expected, not only in this jurisdiction but in also in other countries. The M3 has cost the taxpayers €12 million since it opened. I am not satisfied. I accept that the Comptroller and Auditor General says that based on the information he received from the...

Committee on Public Petitions: Discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Schemes: Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the Minister of State and acknowledge the positive work he is doing. The Minister of State used the phrase "those with the greatest needs" a number of times in his statement. He said there was a clear instruction from Government that eligibility was to focus on those with the greatest needs. The Minister of State also said, however, that to make the criteria for the scheme very...

Committee on Public Petitions: Discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Schemes: Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: I appreciate that the Minister of State is perhaps not going to disclose the overall number, but he gave us an upper figure of 20,000. There are 4,700 at the moment.

Committee on Public Petitions: Discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Schemes: Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: Within that there must have been preliminary work done on what he thinks the full scope will be. Has the Minister of State been told what the limit of funding available? Is it the case that he now has to frame the legislation to ensure that the scope does not allow it to go beyond that? Is he going to end up framing this?

Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (11 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: I was not claiming to be.

Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (11 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: 6. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with the stakeholders involved with Claremont stadium in Navan, County Meath, regarding its proposed sale in order for this national athletic facility to continue to serve Irish athletics and local communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42150/17]

Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (11 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: I ask the Minister if he will liaise with the stakeholders involved with Claremont stadium athletics facility in Navan regarding the proposed sale in order to secure this national facility to serve athletics and local communities. I ask the Minister not to read the prepared email he sent during the summer. There are many decent athletics and sporting people listening this morning and I ask...

Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (11 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: I spoke to the stadium manager and trustee members again this morning. These are people who have dedicated their lives to their community in Navan and around Meath, keeping this facility on the go for over three decades. The stress caused to this volunteer-led organisation is immense. It is somewhat ironic that in yesterday's Budget Statement, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, cited in...

Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (11 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: The Minister is right as there are so many groups using the facility. They include Parkvilla FC, the Navan athletics club and community groups such as Midway, Career Start and children's groups. My daughter attends a fashion design course in that stadium. It is used by the entire community and not just the sporting community. Optics are important. On www.daft.iethere is an aerial picture...